Sooner or later in the course of gardening and landscaping, you may be asked to build a retaining wall of natural rocks using something like Sonoma field stone. The task is pretty daunting at first, moving and positioning those five ten twenty hundred tons of stones that got delivered on a palette in a wire basket. Once you get into the rhythm and flow of it though, it is a darn right pleasant exercise that takes you straight to the high mountain terraces, ancient island cairns and way markers, neolithic rock mounds, and foundations for a mud straw home. Here’s a few pictures to help on the way:
Mission Azul 